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100 1 $aFleming, Thomas J.
245 14 $aThe perils of peace :$bAmerica's struggle for survival after Yorktown /$cThomas Fleming.
250 $a1st Smithsonian books paperback ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSmithsonian Books/Collins,$c2008, ©2007.
300 $axiii, 352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 325-341) and index.
505 00 $tA potentially ruinous victory --$tDiplomats in distress --$tAn empire on the brink --$tThe art of making something out of nothing --$tUncrowning a king --$tMen talk peace but there is no peace --$tLoose cannons front and center --$tA peace that surpasses understanding --$tWill it be peace--or civil war? --$tA runaway Congress vs. a berserk Parliament --$tGeorge Washington's tears.
520 $aExamines the political and economic state of the new United States at the end of the Revolutionary War and how Washington was able to hold his depleated and weary army together until peace and independence arrived.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xPeace.
651 0 $aYorktown (Va.)$xHistory$ySiege, 1781.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1775-1783.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1775-1783.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain.
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651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
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